Why can't these people be more like the woman that is the owner/manager/whatever of the cemetery that volunteered to take the body? She made a statement something like "Christ says you should forgive your enemies." I'm not Christian but I feel like I live my life more in line with Jesus's teachings (except for accepting him as my one true lord) than many of these supposed Christians...

In the local paper here in Richmond I saw a quote from a concerned citizen that they were afraid that somebody might come to visit the gravesite and become inspired to follow his example.

I had two thoughts. First, as mass murderers go, Tsarnaev was not that effective so not sure I would think he made a good role model for your mad bomber children.Second, Kings Dominion could probably stand for some remodeling. Been almost 20 years since I worked there and I remember the place being on the edge of shabby even then.

Latinwolf:FTA:Task force chairman James Lafferty said at a news conference Monday that last week's burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a private Muslim cemetery in Caroline County was "an awful sneak attack on the people of Virginia."Lafferty says federal officials should investigate whether any laws were broken. Local and state officials already are doing so.

Some real dumb ass officials in that area.

So, looks like they are wasting tax money for something that is not only pointless but really, really dumb. I'm shocked. I bet this "task force" is heavily armed with cheaply made Bushmaster AR-15s and plenty of Rambo movie watchin'.

Latinwolf:FTA:Task force chairman James Lafferty said at a news conference Monday that last week's burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a private Muslim cemetery in Caroline County was "an awful sneak attack on the people of Virginia."Lafferty says federal officials should investigate whether any laws were broken. Local and state officials already are doing so.

Some real dumb ass officials in that area.

Well technically even the Muslims in Virginia didn't want him so maybe a grave digger got a little something extra for a hole nobody was using.

vernonFL:I don't understand people being against other people they don't like being buried places. Who cares? Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are both buried in Virginia, how many Americans did they kill?

Robert E. Lee gets to be buried there because it was his frickin' house.

The Anti-Sharia Task Force? Sounds like an offshoot of the KKK. Guys like Tamerlan make it infinitely more difficult for ordinary folks who happen to be Muslim as this organization and those like it will gain legitimacy and traction with ordinary Americans who would previously not even have considered adopting such a point of view. I've been on a few dates with a Muslim chick that goes to grad school here in the states and she really isn't too much different than American girls. Wears Western clothes and listens to obscure indie bands. I think she falls more into the good Muslim woman role when she goes back home though.

As far as Tamerlan, probably the best thing to do would have been to send his body back to his home country. Not because I think his rotting corpse isn't fit for U.S. soil. Our worms and bugs have to eat same as former soviet bloc ones, but because eventually someone from one of these groups will find out where he is buried and dig him up so they can desecrate his body and that will offend all Muslims, even little miss grad student.

Latinwolf:FTA:Task force chairman James Lafferty said at a news conference Monday that last week's burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a private Muslim cemetery in Caroline County was "an awful sneak attack on the people of Virginia."Lafferty says federal officials should investigate whether any laws were broken. Local and state officials already are doing so.

Some real dumb ass officials in that area.

No laws were broken as there were no laws to regulate the burial of Muslims in a Muslim graveyard beyond those governing general burials.

This actually thwarted the secret plans of the invisible Caliphate... If they had cremated Tsarnaev, the Sharia-progammed nanobots in his bloodstream would have escaped into the atmosphere, contaminating most of the eastern seaboard with nanoscopic prayers to Allah.

I can appreciate the concerns over desecration and whatnot, but, really, Bodygate has been a pretty retarded spectacle and just goes to show that if there's one thing Americans can really unite on in the face of a tragedy it's derp to the Nth degree.

exit_wound:vartian: A) Fark these idiots and B) This is one of many, many reasons why I left Virginia as fast as possible.

You seem to forget that it was a person from Virginia and a cemetery in Virginia that made it happen, when for more than a week there were many other states that refused to allow the burial. I am sure that there are groups of persons living in other states that would be complaining as well had he been buried there.

Yup. And also that this "Anti-Sharia Task Force" is a guy who was able to create a blogspot page. That's pretty much it.

Somehow, strangely, I doubt he's opposed to the christian version of sharia law being imposed on Virginia's citizens, like Cuchinelli wants.

Stupid question. Nazis can say whatever they like in this country, that's why we have a First Amendment. The difference would be if they chose to use violence instead. The same goes for Islam, Christians, Westboro Baptist Church, and everyone else.

mike_the_engineer:Can't we just cremate him and spread his ashes across a landfill or something?

The proscription against defiling the dead goes back to the earliest days of civilization itself. It predates Judaism by (probably) 5000 years, and Christianity by a cool 10k. The Greeks wrote whole epics and plays about how terrible a thing dishonoring the dead is. Achilles, the hero of the Illiad, dies(to the most pathetic person in that story, Paris, no less) as an inevitable retribution to the dishonor he gave Hector's corpse. The Antigone is a story and later play about how shaming the dead is the biggest blasphemy humans can commit -worse than incest considering that the protagonist is a woman born of it- and how those who do such things not only anger the gods but pollute themselves with an amorality so great that no good deed can wipe it clean.

If you want to defile and shame the dead that's fine, but remember wanting to do so makes you the moral inferior of pretty much every human being who ever lived.

No, it isn't really. Per capita, Muslims are actually less violent than Christians, and for every Tsarnaev in the US, there's probably 15-20 angry white christian dudes with firearms and higher body counts. You want to see anti-Christian task-forces too?

skozlaw:I can appreciate the concerns over desecration and whatnot, but, really, Bodygate has been a pretty retarded spectacle and just goes to show that if there's one thing Americans can really unite on in the face of a tragedy it's derp to the Nth degree.

Derp and being ethicless, pants-shiatting cowards. America: Land of the Hoveround, Home of the Chickenhawk.